However, with Madrid likely to demand a ludicrous transfer fee, any deal seems to be out of the price range of new Red Devils manager David Moyes.

That was until a group of hardcore fans stepped in and offered a helping hand, after launching their ‘Bring Back Ronaldo’ campaign this week.

The supporters consortium are urging fans to throw £10 into a hat in order to raise funds to pay for Ronaldo, with £100million their ambitious target.

Big fee: Ronaldo would around £100million to sign (Picture: Getty)

The group have had success early on, collecting in excess of 5000 donations, and are confident of hitting their target with United reported to have a global fan base of 650 million.

United though, well, they’re not impressed.

In a statement issued after the launch of the campaign, they told supporters Moyes might not even want Ronaldo and urged them to keep their hands in their pockets.

It read: ‘Manchester United would like to remind fans that decisions over additions to the squad will be made by the manager and the manager alone. We would not want any of our supporters to be under a false impression that anything other than this would ever be the case.’